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"Tod M. Neidt" <tod@g.o> writes: |
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> Hi Terje! |
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hi Tod. :) |
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> I should have explicitly discussed the distinction between upstream |
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> and third-party patches and those that are specific to Gentoo Linux. |
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> I assumed that we were talking about the former in my previous post. |
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I didn't think much of the difference to be honest. but thanks for |
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clearing it up. |
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> Normally gentoo specific patches created by the ebuild author are |
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> kept in the files directory. A suffix of "-gentoo" is typically |
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> appended to indicate this. For example, |
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> xgammon-0.98-gentoo-makefile.patch, or something to that effect. |
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oki. I'll keep that in mind when writing patches. |
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> Sorry for any confusion that this may have caused. |
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stop being sorry for helping. ;) |
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Terje |
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